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Order Lepidoptera
- This page contains pictures and information about Leafrollers and Bell Moths
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Tortricidae is the only family in superfamily Tortricoidea.
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- Most Caterpillars in Tortricidae are called Leafrollers because they
roll the leaves of their food plant and fixed with silk. They live and pupate
within this rolled leaf shelter. Some other species are leaf miners or stem
borers. Some others feed on dead leaves on the forest floor.
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- The Caterpillars are usually small and smooth-skinned. They usually have
pale body colours with dark head. The head look like finger-nail attached to
body. They will do the bungee-jump,
i.e., drop with a silken thread, when disturbed.
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The moths in this family are usually small (body length 6-20mm) and have cryptic
colours brown or grey. Head has small maxillary palps and the frons has
scales directed forwards. The antenna are relatively short, about half the body
length. The thorax often has a crest of raised scales.
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Some species adults, the subfamily TORTRICINAE, are called Bell Moths. Those moths, when in rest, have
the shape of church bell. Their forewings have the rather squared ends.
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They usually
hide amongst the foliage of their food plants or on the coarse bark of trees
during the day. They active after late
afternoon.
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TORTRICINAE - Bell Moths
- Dog-faced Bell Moth
 - Acroceuthes metaxanthana, body length 10mm
- There is the dog face pattern on this Bell Moth's forewings, with eyes,
nose and ears. We call this moth Dog-faced Bell Moth. Please check this page
for more information.
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- Mottled Bell Moth
 - Meritastis polygraphana, body length 6mm
- From reference information the patterns on the wings of this tiny moth
vary quite a bit. Please check this page
for more information.
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OLETHREUTINAE
- Hopper-mimicking Leaf Roller Moth
 - Dudua siderea (former Argyroploce siderea), body length 10mm
- Photos taken in Anstead Forest on Apr 2009. Does this moth mimic planthopper? The
faked head is on the other side of the real head. There are even the faked
legs near the base. What is the benefit of mimicking a planthopper? Well,
please check this page for
more details.
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- Golden Brown Leaf Roller Moth
  - ? Cryptophlebia sp., body length 6mm
- This tiny colourful moth was found in Karawatha Forest Lagoon Track on Apr
2009. Please check this page
for more information.
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- Bird-dropping Leaf Roller
 - ? sp., body length 10mm
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- Leafroller Caterpillars
 
 - ? sp., Body length 20mm
- We believe those caterpillars listed in this page
are Leafroller Caterpillars in Family TORTRICIDAE, but do not know which
species they are.
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- Reference:
- 1. Insects
of Australia - CSIRO, Division of Entomology, Melbourne University
Press, 2nd Edition 1991, p873.
- 2. Moths of Australia
- I. F. B. Common, Melbourne University Press, 1990, p274.
- 3. Moths - family Tortricidae
- - lifeunseen.com by Nick Monaghan.
- 4. Tortricidae -
Insects of
Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks.
- 5. TORTRICIDAE
of Australia - by Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley,
2008.
- 6. Home
of Tortricid.net - tortricid.net, by Todd Gilligan, 2008.
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